[Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining
Mark Fasheh
mark.fasheh at oracle.com
Sun Sep 4 06:10:45 UTC 2005
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:46:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Actually I think it's rather sick. Taking O_NONBLOCK and making it a
> lock-manager trylock because they're kinda-sorta-similar-sounding? Spare
> me. O_NONBLOCK means "open this file in nonblocking mode", not "attempt to
> acquire a clustered filesystem lock". Not even close.
What would be an acceptable replacement? I admit that O_NONBLOCK -> trylock
is a bit unfortunate, but really it just needs a bit to express that -
nobody over here cares what it's called.
--Mark
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Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
mark.fasheh at oracle.com
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